Eraclito e Democrito
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| Original title: | Eraclito e Democrito |
| Shape: | Commedia per musica |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Antonio Salieri |
| Libretto : | Giovanni De Gamerra |
| Premiere: | August 13, 1795 |
| Place of premiere: | Vienna, Burgtheater |
| Playing time: | about 2 hours |
| Place and time of the action: | At Pilemone's house |
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Eraclito e Democrito (Eng. Heraclitus and Democritus ) is a “Commedia per musica” in two acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni De Gamerra . The first performance took place on August 13, 1795 in the Vienna Burgtheater . In 1796 the opera was performed in Berlin. Another series of performances took place in Vienna in 1803.
The first modern re-performance took place in concert form on October 14, 2018 at the Walldorfer Musiktage under the direction of the Salieri specialist Timo Jouko Herrmann . The secco recitatives have been replaced by German interim texts written by the librettist and dramaturge André Meyer. During this performance, parts of the original version that had previously been ignored by researchers and contained in a copy of the score preserved in the University Library Neuchâtel were played, such as the slow introduction to the overture.
Web links
- Eraclito e Democrito (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program Walldorfer Musiktage 2018, City of Walldorf, September 2018, p. 13.